Foreign Body
Oct 17 2014
•2h 57m
•Drama
A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi.
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Riccardo Leonelli
Angelo
Agnieszka Grochowska
Katarzyna
Agata Buzek
Katarzyna
Weronika Rosati
Mira Tkacz
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